lalage

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

A genus of birds of the family Campophagidæ, of which the type is L. terat, containing numerous species (about 25) ranging from Mauritius through India to Australia and Oceanica.

A genus of thrushes (same as Copsichus, 1), the type being Turdus mindanensis.

In entomology, a genus of dipterous insects of the family Muscidæ.

Etymologies

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Examples

Go in for scribenery with the satiety of arthurs in S. P.Q.R.ish and inform to the old sniggering publicking press and its nation of sheepcopers about the whole plighty troth between them, ma-lady of milady made melodi of malodi, she, the lalage of lyon — esses, and him, her knave arrant.